Merill Fernando
@merill
Product Manager @microsoft | Tweets my own Built → http://cmd.ms • http://maester.dev • Graph XRay • http://youtube.com/@merillx 📰 Newsletter→ http://entra.news 🎙️ Podcast→ http://entra.chat
Identity at McDonald's scale is WILD! 🍔✨ George Roberts on the #EntraChat podcast dives into migrating from ADFS to Entra, frontline worker MFA, and lessons learned. Must-listen for #Identity and #Entra professionals. ➡️ entra.news/p/entra-mcdona… + available on YouTube

This Entra.news was special. Not because it was issued on my birthday, but because it featured my "High-Profile Cloud Privesc" blog post in the Security section! What a nice present 🎁
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Why @m0bilej0n likes #Microsoft Intune Hybrid-Join. Definitely an unpopular opinion. ;) Listen to his conversation with @merill on the Entra.Chat Podcast. #msintune #Entra #EntraID youtube.com/watch?v=mk2y5N…
Don't miss this episode. Thanks so much for such great content @merill youtu.be/mk2y5N2EN90?si…
EntraPulse a desktop app that transforms how you interact with your Entra Tenant & understand Entra with MS Docs & Learn Privacy w/ local LLM support. Flexibility with Cloud LLM providers. MCP integration with MS Docs/Learn, Web & to Entra via MSGraph. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-you…
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I have a very zoomer / junior question Back before kuberneyney and containers, what were the common practice for server to deal with app when it crashed? Do they just use systemd / scripts to recover it?
🔥 Security researchers! Microsoft Entra ID’s new linkable token identifiers are a game-changer for tracking identity threats! 🕵️♂️ Correlate auth events across logs (Entra, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint) to hunt attackers. Dive in: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft…
In case you missed it, our wishes are coming through as @merill will be speaking and partying with us at @wpninjasus in December in Dallas, TX. For many of us, this is a bucket list level opportunity as the amazing Merill joins us in America. Sign up now: workplaceninjas.us
This week I caught up with @m0bilej0n for a fun chat on Entra join vs Entra hybrid join, Autopilot and more. Jon also announced the finalists for the Entra IDol of the year Clippy Awards 👏 🌟 Eric Woodruff - @ericonidentity 🌟 Thomas Naunheim - @Thomas_Live 🌟 Daniel Bradley…
This week I caught up with @m0bilej0n for a fun chat on Entra join vs Entra hybrid join, Autopilot and more. Jon also announced the finalists for the Entra IDol of the year Clippy Awards 👏 🌟 Eric Woodruff - @ericonidentity 🌟 Thomas Naunheim - @Thomas_Live 🌟 Daniel Bradley…

Automatically Generate Maester Tests for Conditional Access bit.ly/3HQdUnb #ConditionalAccess #Maester #Security #DesiredState
A huge @wpninjasus webinar where @getrubix and I announce the #WPNinjasUS preday hackathon with 5 amazing captains, 4 amazing judges, and the official announcement that @merill and @Brinkhoff_C will speak & judge! Signup now for $349 until 7/31 #MVPBuzz youtube.com/watch?v=cQxiFx…
👋 Check out this new Microsoft Entra blog post 👇 Smarter identity security starts with AI techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-e…
Here's a decision tree to help developers and admins who manage Microsoft 365, Azure and Entra tenants, pick the most secure authentication method for their apps. 🎯 Managed Identities The best option for app secrets is to not have any secrets in the first place. This way,…
Entra News just hit 15K subscribers, we grew by 5K this year alone! We 💯% appreciate the support from 👏 The amazing Entra community authors 👏 Our readers who support, share & help us grow organically Huge shout out to our paid subscribers who make all this possible and to…

This is one of the best activities Microsoft has done for security, ever. This Excel workbook has links to documentation and will help you plan, roadmap changes for the most impact, determine where you need more work. It's really amazing. When this first came out (the…
🔐 Identity, data, devices + network, infrastructure, SecOps = topics now covered in our updated Zero Trust workshop. Give it a try here and let us know your thoughts: msft.it/6014S7bsK #ZeroTrust #SecOps
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